Balzac Versions
Here is a list of the changes made in previous versions of Balzac, since its inception a few years ago.
Version 1.0 b29
Released 18 October 2007
- Fixed bug in whitelister dealing with numeric HTML attributes
- Removed spurious status messages in Leopard
- Worked around date parsing bug in Leopard causing inbox to display as empty
Version 1.0 b28
Released 14 October 2007
- Fixed bug introduced in b27 meaning messages could not be sent with ‘Plain Text’ style
- Fixed bug meaning Trashed messages were showing up in other views
- Spam and Trash views can now have useful sub-views
Version 1.0 b27
Released 10 October 2007
- Relaxed Whitelister slightly to allow attributes like bgcolor and colspan
- Whitelister now deals better with various types of malformed HTML, and removes spurious xml declarations
- Window close button now reflects edited state of drafts
- Textile now off by default in plain text messages
- Fixed bug meaning messages tagged Mailing List and Spam were not shown in Spam view
- Fixed bug with display of bracketed urls
- Removed rubygems require in tagger.rb
- Automatically generated Mailing List view now shows messages correctly
- Subviews of Mailing Lists view now show messages
- Fixed bug in plain text rendering of bolded text with punctuation characters between them
- Now adds emails with company name only or no names to address book auto-complete list
- Fixed bug introduced in b26 where saved drafts not replaced when edited after restart of app
- Fixed styling issue causing links in message bodies to be underlined
Version 1.0 b26
Released 04 October 2007
- Fixed bug rendering returns in some plain text messages
- Summary now replaces newlines with spaces
- Saved drafts now restore styling
- Saved drafts now restore signature setting
- New messages no longer have a tab character at end in compose view
- Fixed bug causing instability on attempting to edit connect minutes in new prefs dialog
- Replying to ‘To do’ message removes ‘To do’ tag
- Fixed bug when pressing cancel twice in find panel
- Fixed bug in system version check
- Fixed CPU usage caused by unreleased timer
- Added table rows to permitted tags
- Fixed bug rendering new lines and multiple line quotes in replies
- Added tagging of outgoing messages
- Reply-to header field now respected for mailing list messages
- Auto-complete emails no longer prefixed with a blank space if no name in address book
Version 1.0 b25
Released 30 September 2007
- Add a sheet on closing draft window – Discard or Save Draft
- Fixed bug assigning new port to Receive or Send port in Accounts prefs
Version 1.0 b24
Released 29 September 2007
- Now requires OS X 10.4.0 or higher – due to various dependencies on 10.4 tech (Ruby, transitions, DOM)
- Can now compose using embedded textile or eruby commands, or even just HTML
- Added snippets (excerpts of text which can be reused), and thus signatures
- Added Delete Spam Messages menu item
- Added Delete Trash Messages menu item
- Significantly faster when tagging or deleting multiple messages
- Added French localization, with help from Wtfigo – all mistakes are mine
- Imports mail from Tiger mail.app ‘mbox’ format, as well as real mbox – drag and drop from Mail.app folders
- Fixed mail export bug with quoted messages
- Fixed bug in send code meaning long urls not wrapped
- Opening saved drafts no longer loses formatting
- Fixed bug with date display caused by stale cache for messages several days old
- Fixed some cosmetic styling bugs for incoming messages
- HTML Whitelisting now implemented
- Added completely revised help files
- Added Sparkle support
- Similar button now strips Re: etc from subjects
- Similar button now undoes selection if pushed twice
Version 1.0 b23
Released 04 December 2006
- Now imports Mail.app version 2 .mbox files as well as version 1 .mbox via drag and drop
- Now produces log file (visible via console window)
- Fixed bug remembering passwords when first run
- Improved auto-update code
- Fixed bug when sending Spam messages with certain encodings to SpamSieve
- Fixed bug – disabled accounts were being included in auto-connect after sleep
Version 1.0 b22
Released 01 August 2006
- Mail view styles and message view styles are now independent
- Fixed crashing bug when sending with SSL enabled
Version 1.0 b21
Released 01 March 2006
- Added support for SpamSieve as a Spam filter
- Added option to turn off cache and maximum size for cache
- Text now set to normal style following a head or quote in outgoing message
- Text can now be styled bold or italic in outgoing messages
- Fixed bug when find panel requested multiple times
- Fixed problem sending messages after internet connection interrupted
- Fixed bug sorting by from in lists with messages having only email in from field
- Some GPG support added, but disabled for now
Version 1.0 b19
Released 01 February 2006
- Now a Universal Binary
- Now connects automatically when the network comes up after sleep
- Uses new style Unified Toolbar
- Fixed bug handling mailto urls
- Fixed bug with export of single message
- Fixed bug in select all
- Fixed bug with selecting a word by double clicking on OS X 10.4
Version 1.0 b18
Released 01 February 2006
- Added registered user string to about box
- Changed SMTP code so that authentication is not required with blank username
Version 1.0 b17
Released 01 February 2006
- Fixed bug with cancel button not working if clicked at bottom
- Changed ‘Flavours’ to tags and removed US localisation
- Fixed bug in auto-complete if part of name was deleted
- Fixed bug meaning messages weren’t removed from the server
- Fixed bug in preferences which reset default account when fields changed
- Limited History saved to last 7 days (display not yet done)
- Fixed some problems displaying inline attachments in HTML messages
- Fixed bad handling of gmail message parts incorrectly labelled as ‘inline’
- Save as image now works from image attachment view
Version 1.0 b15
Released 01 February 2006
- Now requires OS X 10.3.9 or above
- Uses search view rather than combo box
- Fixed recipient list selection problem on 10.4
- Fixed cosmetic bug in table highlight
- Added back to list button to message view
- Dragging messages to views adds tags if applicable
- Delete after days field in prefs now enabled immediately after click on checkbox
- Fixed handling of Authentication failure on receive
- Connect With menu now updated on Account deletion in preferences
- Now remembers most recently used Recipient addresses for autocomplete
- Fixed problems with History caused by NSArrayController change in 10.4
Version 1.0 b14
Released 01 February 2006
- URL auto-linking improved when displaying messages
- Attachment names containing dash no longer truncated on save
- Shift select now always works in list view
- Mailboxes now saved after downloads
- Table selection now updates when Accounts deleted in Preferences
- Auto-scroll in list now works with Webcore 1.3
- Drag into webview now works with Webcore 1.3
- Feedback for downloading changed
- Select similar only adds tag if there is one
- Fixed handling of multipart/mixed messages
- Delete messages on server enabled, including delete after n days
- Account import now updates popup and removes blank account
- Updating tag colours now updates browser view immediately
- ‘None’ entry in tags menu works
- Deleting messages from Trash now deletes definitively
- History now saved on quit
- Quoted text no longer converted to blockquote in Source view style
- Text selection disabled in list view to improve clicking with Webcore 1.3
- Added SSL suport for send/receive and ports in preferences
Version 1.0 b13
Released 01 January 2006
- Extended expiration date of beta
Version 1.0 b12
Released 17 December 2005
- Added Zonic BugReporter for reporting crash information (since removed)
- URLS no longer wrapped if they contain non-alphanumeric characters (eg ’-’)
- Fixed bug with menus not responding when a view with no messages was selected
- Message style now set correctly to last used for replies
- History menu now clears correctly
Version 1.0 b11
Released 17 February 2005
- Tag searches now case-insensitive
- Dates in messages now displayed in local time zone
Version 1.0 b10
Released 17 February 2005
- SMTP with no authentication now permitted
Version 1.0 b9
Released 17 February 2005
- HTML messages with inline image attachements now properly displayed
- URLs in outgoing HTML messages now have HTML links generated
- Help files now opened at specific pages
- Americanised Help files
Version 1.0 b8
Released 17 February 2005
First public release
